MPW Access

User designs from around the world are grouped into masks and sent to the fabs for fabrication. In this way, mask, wafer, processing and overhead costs are all shared between the users participating in a MPW run. For the users, this fabless scheme allows them to focus on device and application ideas, design and characterization. The technologies that the ePIXfab partners offer are high-end wafer scale CMOS-type fabrication technologies. Setting up and maintaining a fab with such a complex technology is only possible for a few companies and research institutes in the world.

For each of the fabs, you will need to sign their Design Kit License agreement or NDA in order to obtain their Design Kit. This design kit contains technology description, design rules, verification decks, a device library, etc.